September 2013
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Week 1: 8/26-8/30

Essential Question
-Introductions

-Go over Syllabus and
Computer Compliance Sheet

-HW: Get CCS and Syllabus
Signed by Friday;
Join Wiki by Friday; Watch/read one
peice of news
"Getting to Know
Zoo"
*Students Receive Laptops

-Essential Question

-Discuss homework

-1st Amendment
Activity

-HW: Find an article or a clip
from a news program that you enjoy
and bring it in tomorrow
*10th grade meetings on Campus

-Essential Question

-1st Amendment Activity
*11th/12th grade
meetings on Campus

-Essential Question

-1st Amendment
Activity: Exemptions

Full text:
http://www.fas.org/irp/
crs/95-815.pdf
Week 2: 9/2-9/6

Essential Question
No School:
Labor Day
-CCS and Syllabus sheets Due

-Biased Journalism

-Essential Question

-Exemptions (cont'd)

-1st Amendment Activity:
Fight Five Activity
-Essential Question

-Fight
Five Activity and
discussion

HW: Find an
article, tv clip, or
radio clip that
exemplifies one of the
1st Amendment Exemptions;
study for quiz Friday
-Essential
Question

-Finish Fight
Five Activity

-Present Exemption
Articles

-Study groups
for tomorrow's
quiz

HW: Quiz tomorrow
-1st Amendment and exemptions Quiz

-2013 Court Case
Activity

-Discuss Sept. 12th submission

-Journal due date Sept 16th

-HW: Find a Sports
Article
and a News Article
and take notes on the
differences of how
they are reported
(i.e. language, paragraph format,
etc)
Week 3: 9/9-9/13

Essential Question
-Essential Question

-Review similarities/
differences
on Sports vs. News

-Implications
of Freedom of Press
-Essential
Question

-Conclude
Freedom of Press
Activity

-Watch a clip from
The Nightly News
and from The Daily Show and analyze differences
and similarities

-History of
Journalism Webquest
-Essential
Question

- Complete
History of Journalism Webquest

Presentations
and PP on wiki

-HW: Study for quiz on Monday;
read two of the three articles on
Rick Bragg and Jayson Blair
-Essential
Question

-What is fabrication
and plagiarism?

-Read and discuss articles "written"
by Rick Bragg
and Jayson Blair and discuss

-HW: Research a topic for Plagiarizing
Activity
-Essential Question

-Write an article on
your topic that is
completely
plagiarized
from other sources. (1pg min.)

-Rewrite the
article with proper citations and/or in
your own words. (1pg min)

HW: Study for quiz
Monday; write a half
page article
considered to be "yellow journalism"
Week 4:
9/16-920

Essential Question
-Essential Question

-Go over "yellow journalism" homework

-Discuss the
"inverted pyramid"
and use it to write an article pertaining to local news
-Venture Crew
Meeting

-HW: Find an article
that shows
yellow journalism
within the last 2 years
-Essential Question

-present yellow journalism homework

-Go over History of Journalism Webquest

Ethics in
Journalism
WebQuest?

-Is comedy journalism
(i.e. John Stuart or
Steven Colbert)
yellow journalism
or legitimate journalism?
Find an example to support what you believe.
-Essential Question

-go over "comedy journalism" homework

Ethics in
Journalism
WebQuest

-Create presentations
for webquest

-Inverted Pyramid Homework
History of Journalism Quiz

-Present Ethics in
Journalism
presentations;
discussion

-Post ethics presentations
to wiki
Week 5: 9/23-9/27

Essential Question
-Essential Question

-Finish Ethics presentations

Go over appositives and how they benefit journalism

-Appositives worksheet: Do for homework
-Essential Question

-Write an article
on a subject of
your choice: 1st
half-subjective; 2nd
half-objective

-Present to the class

HW:
Find an article that uses appositives
-Essential Question

-Present self-written articles

-Present examples of
appositives from last night (collect)

-Find different examples
of sentries currently
posted

-HW: Use your sentry function
and find news not yet reported on
-Essential Question

-Discuss what you chose for your sentry post

-Begin Editing Symbols

-Editing Symbols Activity

-HW: Study Editing Symbols
-Essential Question

-Study Day:
Review Activities on
1st Amendment,
History of Journalism,
Ethics, and Editing Symbols

-HW: Study for Exam Monday
October 2013
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Week 1: 9/30-10/4

Essential Question
Unit 1 Exam Today
-Essential Question

-Create a name
for the Zoo School Journal:
The Mane Attraction

-HW:Find an article that
centers
around the
pros/cons of
scholastic
censorship
-Essential Question

-Go over homework

-Go over exam

-Logo? Layout?

-HW: Finish editing worksheets
- Essential Question

-Go over 3-5 in editing
symbols;
Present last night's homework

-Choose a Debate Topic

-Group 1: Tinker Decision
Group 2: Hazelwood Decision
-1st Six Weeks
Ends

-Prepare Tinker Decision
and Hazelwood Decision
presentations

-Research Debate topic;
prepare and review cases
involved in that topic of
censorship

-HW: Prepare to take a side on censorship;
review cases to prepare
Week 2: 10/7-10/11

Essential Question
No School
No School
- Present on Tinker Decision
and Hazelwood Decision

-Censorship Debate

-Begin a set of laws, ethics,
and standards to ensure our
journal stays legal, ethical and readable

-HW: What do you want in a
journal? Write down your ideas
Big Sweep Presentation
-Discuss laws/ethics for
The Mane Attraction and
discuss last night's
homework

-Discuss future of ZSJ

-Editing symbol practice

HW: Interview 3 people about
what they find as
important qualities in a Newspaper
or news source
in general.What makes them choose
a specific
paper/website/channel to get their news
from?
(one must be over the age of 40 and
one must
be a current zoo school student.
You cannot interview the same person/people as others in the class)
Week 3: 10/14-10/18
Essential Question
-Compile Interviews in groups of 4; synthesize
and present

-Discussion on importance of news:
Local, Regional, National, and International
-Go over percentages

-Using The New York Times,
define and exemplify:
Feature Story, Editorial, Hard News, and Column

HW: Come up with a
"motto" for the paper
(i.e. The New York Times'
motto is
"Everything Fit to
Print")
-Mottos

-Paper layout

-Timing on paper

-Work on Mane Attraction Ethics
-Essential Question

-Finish Mane Attraction Ethics
-Essential Question


-HW: Using your sentry function, decide what your first article will be; write
biographies
Week 4: 10/21-10/25

Essential Question
-Gathering/writing leads webquest

-Present different types of leads

-Get into two groups:
Headline/Hard news and Local/Opinion/Interest
pieces: decide, as a group, what articles will appear in
the first issue. Then, decide who will help edit what articles
- Lead presentations

-Bio pics/bios

-Work on articles
(what type of lead
will they
be?)
-Check rough drafts

-Use lead presentations
to decide which lead you will do

-Group with editors; begin editing

-Bio Pics/Bios

-HW: Article writers use
www
.paperrater.com
to ensure correct grammar, grade level, etc
-Secondary rough draft editing

-Go over transcription:
Verbatim transcription,Intelligent verbatim, Intelligent transcriptionand
personality profiling: find a personality profile and
discuss with class

-HW: Find an interview-intensive
article, or a personality profile,
and prepare to discuss with the class tomorrow
-Whole School Guest Presentation
Week 5: 10/28-11/01

Essential Question
Big Sweep
-Essential Question;
discuss

-Find an example of
scenic lead,
storytelling lead,
punch lead,
opposite lead,
blind lead and
summary lead
(in groups of 2)
and present to class

-Go to the
following website:
http:/
/matadornetwork
.com
/bnt/13-simple-journalist-techniques-for-effective-interviews/
and read the entire article and take notes.
Be prepared to discuss,
in detail, tomorrow.
-Show completion of articles for next week's paper;
discuss subject matter

-Discuss article from yesterday

-Final Editors
/Layout of Paper

-HW: Find a video interview
Volume 1 Released Today
Those writing articles
for next week
need to buddy up and
edit. Then email your
articles
to me (this is for a grade)

BBC: Fact vs. Opinion
http://www.bbc.co.uk
/skillswise/
topic/fact-or-opinion/resources/l1
Read the four fact
sheets and then
complete worksheets;
Quiz
November 2013
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Week 1: 11/04-11/08

Essential Question
Leads Quiz

-HW: Read The Mane
Attraction think of
one or two things that
could be different this time around
-Fill up articles; secondary editing

-Share Fact vs Opinion worksheets
-Discuss what could be done different this time around

-Second round of editing

-Begin Layout
-Finish Layout; post
online

-Witness accuracy sheet
(fact vs. opinion)

-Find an article in which witness accuracy was crucial; present the fallibility of their statement/
testimony
-Witness accuracy discussion
Week 2: 11/11-11/15

Essential Question
No School
-Witness accuracy activity:
Roles assigned; interviews
prepared; begin interviews
-Witness accuracy activity:
Interviewing and assessing data
-Witness accuracy activity

-Review Case accuracy/effectiveness of interviewing
Hotel Arson Accusation

Eyewitness Testimony Part 1
Eyewitness Testimony Part 2

-Discuss notes

HW: Decide on article ideas
for Monday
Week 3: 11/18-11/22

Essential Question
-Article discussion for 'The Mane Attraction"

-Discuss notes from last week

-Find an example of faulty testimony

-Rough Drafts of articles due tomorrow; inaccuracy presentation due tomorrow
-Inaccuracy presentation

-Editing
2nd Six Weeks Ends

-2nd Editing

-Witness accuracy activity:Roles assigned; interviews
prepared

HW: Final articles due by 8pm tonight
-Finish Layout; post online

-Witness accuracy activity:
Interviewing and assessing data
-Witness accuracy activity
-Review Case accuracy/effectiveness of interviewing
Week 4: 11/25-11/29

Essential Question
-Witness accuracy activity

-Review Case accuracy/effectiveness of interviewing

-TMA review?
-Luncheon

-Interdisciplinary Activity
No School
No School
No School
December 2013
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Week 1: 12/02-12/06

Essential Question
-Quickly review this week's articles

-Watergate WebQuest

-Those who did their
interviews must have the
play-by-play and article completed by tomorrow
-Watergate Presentations

-Editing

-Discuss final outcome
of witness accuracy activity
-Editing

-Read All the President's Men article

-All the President's Men (with guide)
-Editing/Publication

-All the President's Men (with guide)
-Finish viewing All the President's Men

-Discuss guide

HW: Compile your "must know"
list from the Watergate
scandal and be prepared to show on Monday
Week 2: 12/09-12/13

Essential Question
-Watch All the President's
Men Revisited

-Compile homework for
prep on Watergate Quiz
-Timeline and what happened
-Names and their involvement
-Impact on journalism and government
-Finish prep work for Watergate Quiz
-Read Watergate Background, US vs. Nixon, and "The SmokingGun" transcripts

-Complete Watergate worksheet

-Read "Above the Law" by UVA

-Read Ford's pardon of Nixon
Study Day
Watergate Exam
Week 3: 12/16-12/20

Essential Question
-Go over this week's articles

-Political Article: Conservative Liberal, Unbiased
-Edit Articles

-National Geographic: The Brain
-Political Presentations

-Editing
-Political Presentations

-Publish

-Survey
-Black Fish/Socratic Seminar
Week 4: 12/23-12/25
No School
No School
No School
No School
No School
January 2014
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Week 1: 12/30-1/03

Essential Question
No School
No School
No School
Essential Question

-Reporting on Crimes Activities:
"Facing a Jury of (Some of)
One's Peers"

"Puerto Ricans Angry That U.S. Overrode Death Penalty Ban"
-Writing Field Notes

-Conducting Field Interviews

-Watch "Disappeared" and take field notes
Week 2: 1/06-1/10

Essential Question
-Discuss "Disappeared" case

-HW: Practice Field Interviews by preparing to interview Lee's mother
-Discuss Homework

-Begin ZS Murder Investigation

-HW: Finish writing articles
ZS Murder Investigation: Mathematics of the Crime

-HW: Submit finalized articles by 8pm tonight
ZS Murder Investigation:
Forensics and Interviews
ZS Murder Investigation:
Forensics and Interviews
Week 3: 1/13-1/17

Essential Question
ZS Murder Investigation:
Forensics and Interview


HW: Study for Final
Assessing Data:
Begin working on analysis and article

HW: Study for Final
Assessing Data:
work on oral presentations and finish analysis and article

HW: Study for Final
Finals

Visit: The Newseum Website
for really cool info on the history of News
Finals
Week 4: 1/20-1/24
No School
No School
No School
1st Day of 2nd Semester